Marcus Aurelius Quotes
In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'
Quotes to Explore
-
It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
-
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
-
After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
-
You think about taking audiences on a journey.
-
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
-
Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
-
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
-
I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
-
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
-
I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
-
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
-
People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
-
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
-
I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
-
Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
-
The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.
-
I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
-
The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on your list of fast-playing golfers.
-
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
-
Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.
-
When Mark was playing last year, we weren't as good personnel-wise as we are now.
-
It's an honour to be a world champion, and it can never be taken away from you.
-
In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'
